WUDAPT
The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools project
Contact: info@wudapt.org
Funded by: Community-based project
Short intro: The WUDAPT project is an international community-generated urban canopy information and modeling infrastructure to facilitate urban-focused climate, weather, air quality, and energy-use modeling application studies
Overall aims
The overall aims of WUDAPT are to:
- to acquire and make accessible coherent and consistent descriptions and information on form and function of urban morphology relevant to climate weather, and environment studies on a worldwide basis,
- to provide a portal with tools that extract relevant urban parameters and properties for models and for model applications at appropriate scales for various climate, weather, environment, and urban planning purposes
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Guiding principle
Its guiding principle is to generate “fit for purpose” urban data using a globally consistent methodology, and publicly accessible input data and tools. Products created from this process are shared across multiple communities and platforms.
© Image from Oke et al. (2017)
Join the community!
WUDAPT is a successful grassroots effort, and continued community involvement is key to assuring success. Please consider following online, or engaging in one of the following topics:
- developing training materials to classify your city into LCZs
- contributing your LCZ map to WUDAPT via the LCZ Generator
- helping us to collect other open access urban canopy parameter datasets
- support the introduction of fit-for-purpose urban data into modelling systems
References
- Ching, J., Mills, G., Bechtel, B., See, L., Feddema, J., Wang, X., Ren, C., Brousse, O., Martilli, A., Neophytou, M., Mouzourides, P., Stewart, I., Hanna, A., Ng, E., Foley, M., Alexander, P., Aliaga, D., Niyogi, D., Shreevastava, A., … Theeuwes, N. (2018). WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(9), 1907–1924. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0236.1